Dwight Lewis

Dwight Lewis, a graduate of Tennessee State University, is a retired award-winning reporter, columnist and editorial page editor for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. In 1981 he was awarded a national Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to study at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

In November 2017, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is the co-author of A Will to Win, which chronicles the amazing athletic history TSU, as well as contributing author to Thinking Black: Some of the Nation’s Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind.